Thursday, August 24, 2017

Was Nancy Pelosi's Dad a Nazi Alt-Right Bigot?

House Minority Leader Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi woke
up from her 30-year slumber last week and suddenly decided to be outraged by
the Confederate statues standing in the halls of Congress. After serving as
Speaker of the House for four years without noticing the statues, she now suddenly
finds them "reprehensible" and is demanding House Speaker Paul Ryan
have them removed immediately but her family history makes her newfound outrage
a bit awkward.

The Lee-Jackson statue in her childhood
hometown of Baltimore was removed yesterday but it seems the 1948 statue
dedication ceremony was presided over by then Maryland Governor William Preston
Lane Jr. and Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr, Nancy's Dad. Nine
year old Nancy stood close by during the ceremony beaming with pride along with
the 3000 other attendees. The statue was erected with a $100,000 donation
from Baltimorean J. Henry Ferguson whose father was a friend of Confederate
President Jefferson Davis.

Mayor D’Alesandro's dedication speech include these inspiring
words: “Today, with our nation beset by subversive groups and
propaganda which seeks to destroy our national unity, we can look for
inspiration to the lives of Lee and Jackson to remind us to be resolute and
determined in preserving our sacred institutions.”

I suspect today Nancy would consider her Dad/s words "Hate Speech!" Here is the link to the Baltimore Sun article to verify this information: